🚨 BREAKING NEWS
Breaking Bitcoin with quantum may be easier than thought, with Taproot partly to blame, Google says
🤖 Google researchers say breaking Bitcoin and Ethereum’s cryptography may require fewer than 500,000 physical qubits and roughly 1,200–1,450 high-quality qubits for practical attacks, far below earlier estimates in the millions.
🤖The paper warns that real-time quantum attacks could hijack in-flight Bitcoin transactions in about nine minutes, potentially beating confirmation about 41% of the time and putting some 6.9 million already-exposed bitcoin at risk.
🤖Bitcoin’s Taproot upgrade, which makes public keys visible by default, may widen the pool of vulnerable wallets, prompting Google to urge earlier post-quantum migration even as it stresses that quantum attacks are not yet imminent.
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